Jimmy‏ @JimmyPrinceton“A journalist announced last week that he will publish a photograph of then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama (D) and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan that he took in 2005...but did not make public because he believed it would have “made a difference” to Obama’s political future.”

Talking Points Memo‏Verified account @TPMThe photo that never saw the light of day: Obama with Farrakhan in 2005 bit.ly 2E7ZKbN

A journalist announced last week that he will publish a photograph of then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama (D) and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan that he took in 2005 at a Congressional Black Caucus meeting, but did not make public because he believed it would have “made a difference” to Obama’s political future.

The photographer, Askia Muhammad, told the Trice Edney News Wire that he “gave the picture up at the time and basically swore secrecy.”

“But after the nomination was secured and all the way up until the inauguration; then for eight years after he was President, it was kept under cover,” Muhammad said.

Asked whether he thought the photo’s release would have affected Obama’s presidential campaign, Muhammad said, “I insist. It absolutely would have made a difference.”

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Not sure of the point of this thread. I remember stories about Obama and Farrakhan. That particular photo is from 2005. If I read things correctly, it got buried by a guy working at the time for the Nation of Islam newspaper at the request of the CBC. That’s not exactly MSM. I guarantee any standard news outlet would’ve published that photo once BHO announced his candidacy. Besides, the Right sure had fun with Obama’s minister, taking quotes from sermons out of context. Bottom line is those on the Right who didn’t vote for BHO were never going to vote for him. Farrakhan photo or not, racists only wanted to see an angry black man trying to put the screws to whitey. Tbe reality is far different: The only radical to occupy the WH in the past nine years is the angry whiteMan currently holding office there.

kingstonlake wrote:If only Obama had 5 kids by three different women and paid for sex from a porn star right after his third wife gave birth to his fifth kid. Then we could see how the media would have treated Obama.

Or someone could start a rumor that the guy with two kids, both of whom never get in trouble, by the same women who he's still married to and have a good marriage, wasn't born in Hawaii.....

Wrong! One of those kids smokes cigarettes!

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kingstonlake wrote:If only Obama had 5 kids by three different women and paid for sex from a porn star right after his third wife gave birth to his fifth kid. Then we could see how the media would have treated Obama.

Or someone could start a rumor that the guy with two kids, both of whom never get in trouble, by the same women who he's still married to and have a good marriage, wasn't born in Hawaii.....

you're going to offend Goose if you keep talking like that about the mainstream media.

Okay, this is partially an "absence makes the heart grow fonder" situation. I didn't vote for Obama either time, and I didn't have any particular love for the guy or his foreign policy. But god damn if he's not 100 times the human being that Trump is. I just finished watching the first episode of David Letterman's "My Next Guest Needs No Introduction" on Netflix where he has Obama on. The press should treat Trump worse than they treated Obama, because Trump is worse than Obama. Trump is worse than pretty much everyone.

I don't see the value in false equivalences. Trump is a fucking piece of shit. Whose interest is served by engaging in the pretense that Trump and Obama are in any way equals? Certainly not the American people's.

So, basically, this thread is utter trash. Fuck Trump, fuck Trump apologism (yeah, I just made up a word, I'm like drunk Shakespeare up in this bitch). I miss Barack, and I didn't even really like him that much. This is the absolute nadir of the presidency, and I don't see why the press ought to obscure that fact.

Cameron wrote:Okay, this is partially an "absence makes the heart grow fonder" situation. I didn't vote for Obama either time, and I didn't have any particular love for the guy or his foreign policy. But god damn if he's not 100 times the human being that Trump is. I just finished watching the first episode of David Letterman's "My Next Guest Needs No Introduction" on Netflix where he has Obama on. The press should treat Trump worse than they treated Obama, because Trump is worse than Obama. Trump is worse than pretty much everyone.

I don't see the value in false equivalences. Trump is a fucking piece of shit. Whose interest is served by engaging in the pretense that Trump and Obama are in any way equals? Certainly not the American people's.

So, basically, this thread is utter trash. Fuck Trump, fuck Trump apologism (yeah, I just made up a word, I'm like drunk Shakespeare up in this bitch). I miss Barack, and I didn't even really like him that much. This is the absolute nadir of the presidency, and I don't see why the press ought to obscure that fact.

tGreenWay wrote:The latest bump was just more Goose droppings. Too bad he doesn’t stick around to see how wrong he was.

Goose is never open to honest debate. It really is pretty sad. He'd rather just drop a couple of links that he believes to be the truth, maybe yell at a few people and call them hypocrites, and then leave. I wish we had a few conservative voices that is open to having honest discussions.

Cameron wrote:I dunno man, its kind of exhausting debating 10 people all at once with no one on your side, and that's inevitably what Goose runs into here. I wouldn't do much better in his shoes, I don't imagine.